L’aphélie (Aphelion), July 2012.
This series was realised in the south of France during the few days of July 2012 when the Earth was at its longest distance to the sun.
This appears to be a time of lowest speed in the orbit, when people slowly drift in makeshift vessels.
” Do you sense the secret, deep meaning of that adventure, when a delicate and pale graduate goes out all alone, through glass doors, from a safe harbour into the immensity of a July night ? Will he ever wade through those black marshes, swamps and chasms of the endless night; will he disembark on some morning in a safe port ? How many decades will that black Odyssey go on ? ”
Bruno Schulz, A July Night, 1936.
* A few lines about my bio :
My name is Pascal, I’m 35.
I’m a photographer, graduate in Photography from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie ( Arles ), France.
In each project, I try to explore the distance that goes from the neutrality of documentary style photography, to the subjective glance peculiar to the photographic process.
Depending on the project, I work with a 4*5″ view camera ( large-format ), a medium-format camera and a 35mm.
Among my works in progress is the quarterly publication of an issue of Montréal- Paris, whose six chapters will form a final book. Montréal-Paris has been recently exhibited in the E-Exhibition (John Hansard Gallery, Southampton) and last fall in DIY : Photographers and Books, Cleveland Museum of Art.
I live and work in Paris as a portrait photographer, where I also write on photography and curated two photography exhibitions at the galerie michèle chomette.
My portfolio La distance des astres (2013) will be released in the next issue of Infra-Mince (Actes Sud Editions) in November.
